Shabtin
Municipality type C
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicشبتين/شبطين
Shabtin
Shabtin
Shabtin is located in State of Palestine
Shabtin
Shabtin
Location of Shabtin within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°58′26″N 35°02′59″E / 31.97389°N 35.04972°E / 31.97389; 35.04972
Palestine grid154/153
State State of Palestine
GovernorateRamallah and al-Bireh
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total1,136
Name meaningfrom personal name[2]

Shabtin is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the central West Bank.

Location

Shabtin is located 14.4 kilometres (9 mi) north-west of Ramallah. Shabtin is bordered by Al Itihad to the east, Shuqba to the north, Ni'lin to the west, and Deir Qaddis to the south.[3]

History

Just southeast of the village (at grid no. 1544/1528) is Kh. Shabtin, where pottery sherds from the Persian,[4] Persian/Hellenistic,[4] late Roman,[5] Byzantine[4][5] Umayyad/Abbasid eras have been found.[4] The SWP noted "Traces of ruins" here.[6]

Pottery sherds from the Roman/Byzantine eras have been found at Shabtin.[7]

During the Crusader era, the area was a Crusader stronghold, centred around Aboud. Remains of a house from Crusader era have been identified in the centre of Shabtin.[8]

Sherds from the Mamluk era have been found in Shabtin, together with a hoard of 45 Mamluk gold coins.[7]

Ottoman era

Sherds from the early Ottoman era has also been found here.[7]

In the 1840s, the village got caught up in the Qays–Yaman rivalry and was at one time plundered.[9]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted the village, Cheptin, on the slopes of a hill in the distance.[10] An Ottoman village list of the same year, 1870, showed that Schetin had 16 houses and a population of 42, though the population count only included men.[11][12]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described ‘’Shebtin’’ as: "a small village in a valley, with a well to the east. It appears to be an ancient site, and has rock cut tombs south of it."[13]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Shebtin had a population of 63 inhabitants, all Muslims,[14] increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 110, still all Muslim, in 20 houses.[15]

In 1945 statistics the population of Shabtin was 150 Muslims,[16] with 4,423 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[17] Of this, 27 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,158 dunams for cereals,[18] while 7 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[19]

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Shabtin came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 232 inhabitants.[20]

Post-1967

During the Six-Day War in 1967, Shabtin came under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 7.2% of Shabtin land was classified as Area B, the remaining 92.8% as Area C.[21]

Israel has confiscated 1,781 dunams of land from Shabtin in order to construct two settlements, Nili and Na'aleh.[22]

References

  1. ↑ Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  2. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 241
  3. ↑ Shabtin Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  4. 1 2 3 4 Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 194
  5. 1 2 Dauphin, 1998, p. 830
  6. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 355
  7. 1 2 3 Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 195
  8. ↑ Ellenblum, 2003, pp. 134, 180
  9. ↑ Macalister and Masterman, 1906, pp. 43-44
  10. ↑ Guérin, 1875, p. 81
  11. ↑ Socin, 1879, p.161 It was also noted to be in the Ramla district, and noted after Der Kaddis
  12. ↑ Hartmann, 1883, p. 140, also noted 16 houses
  13. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 298
  14. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Division Jaffa, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. 22
  15. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 23
  16. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
  17. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 68
  18. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 117
  19. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 167
  20. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 24
  21. ↑ Shabtin Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 15
  22. ↑ Shabtin Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 16

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